After vote to repeal LGBTQ bans, many gay Methodists are now fully out

[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnDURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — On the same day that United Methodist delegates voted to repeal their denomination’s condemnation of homosexuality from its rulebook, the Rev. Charles Daly drove a big hulking church bus to the Charlotte Convention Center with a handful of church members in tow.Maneuvering the bus into a parking lot that Thursday was tricky. The bus was too tall to clear the overhang at the entrance to one lot, and he had to carefully back out, allow his passengers to step off, and search for another lot.
The end run appeared in his Sunday (May 5) sermon at Epworth United Methodist Church, a suburban congregation in Durham, as a metaphor for his denomination’s predicament.
“After an unbelievable amount of moving traffic and backing and forthing, finally, the General Conference of the United Methodist church was pulling around and driving out of a place that had been stuck for 52 years,” he told his congregation. “The big bus of the denomination is now free from the alley that it backed itself into.”
In Charlotte, members of Epworth United Methodist watched history being made when their denomination repealed a declaration that said the practice of homosexuality was “incompatible with Christian teaching.” A day earlier it also dropped a ban o …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]